There’s and archive in your home that you didn’t know about. Find that box, or draw, or album which holds all the photographs from your family history and explore them. Bring them to the rest of your family and allow them to reminisce, sit quietly and reflect or instinctively start to sort them. Show them to as many people as you can, allow the conversation to wash over you.
Sit back and listen.
Digitalise them and send them to as many people as you can, give people the opportunity to peek into the past. Plaster your walls with them, get them out at family lunches, explore every memory associated with them.
A family archive is and archive you never new you owned, and it’s time to explore it. This Physical publication accompanied by a film attempt to communicate the importance of conversation surrounding family photos and suggests that you should do the same.
A photograph taken by someone who has no intention for it but simply wants to capture a moment in time, to create a time capsule.
Thank you to Mum, Dad, Grandma, Grumps and Toby for sitting patiently and being in my film.